There were no reports, for example, on Wilders tweeting about his nearly one hundred death threats and that wouldn’t be the first time.

Of course there are media reports on individual cases, but the fact that Wilders receives thousands of death threats for exerting his freedom of speech, is barely recognised or defended in the mainstream media.

By ignoring these cases the mainstream media implicitly seems to normalise death threats against a politician who criticises Islam within a modern democratic society.

Fortunately Wilders didn’t lose his sense of humour as he said about the death threats on the Dutch Saint Nicholas holiday: